1800.]. 
be found equal, each diftich containing 
5699. 
If, in like manner, where one verfe 
equals one verfe in numbers, the letters of 
‘the firft be added together as figures, and 
afterwards the letters of the Jaft, in diftinét 
fums, we fhall find each verfe contains 
4i11. For example: 
Ess oreo eva ~bnpoiow icaleras ov duo Sos 
Ov yag ET orECywW THY DoAsyoyenpiny, 
ea aie 5 Ch aes SMe 
6 - hfe) v - 4goc 
ra - 200 y - 3 
T - 80 2 - I 
e - 100 e - Ico 
# iniyqo Series 
co - 200 ey = 30 
éE La 5 6 = 10. 
y - 50 o - 200 
a - I a - 300 
: ee Gy mn) ig 
” ~ 3 e@  - 100 
BOG) S09 ae he OS) 
9 - 70 ® - 800 
6 - 10 v - 300 
a - 2C0 4 - 3 
& - Io y - 50 
ey oe go Bre ho 
é - Io fi) = 7O 
c = 200 a ° 30 
& 2 I 3 - 10 
€:-'5 7 x - 6¢e0 
& = 5 t) - 7O 
& “gain So) » aan Nel 3 
a = I e - Ic0 
8 - 10 a“ - I 
q ar VO } - §00 
v - 400 s - 10 
> - 4 0 mL 
uv SP seXo) y ee) 
Boots GO ae 
SAY. 4lir 
° = 70 easton 
é - Io 
° - 70 
8 - Io 
€ - 200 
41I£ 
ee 
If the perufal of thefe lines make your 
readers only fmile, I fhall have done no 
mifchief at leaft by explaining them; but 
fhould any one ferioufly fet about imi- 
tating them, I fhould confider myfelf as 
having been worle than idly empioyed. 
This peculiarity is not noticed in any 
edition of the Greek Anthologia that I 
have feen. It is however noticed by Hu- 
gtius.—- And fo much for thefe Icofnga. 
Your’s, &c, 
G. Dyer, 
P, S. Two errors of the prefs were in the 
Mr. Grellier on the National Wealth, 
213 
above epigram, as printed in the Monthly 
Magazine: «cageras, for sraCeras*; and 
oiteteyw, for ctepyws 
Three were in the firfts ysvebAtaxatosw 
for yeveBAraxatosy, Nesaain for Nese, and 
Agtwyidew for Acwuidey, 
ee 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
The Principles of POLITICAL aRITHME- 
Tic illuffrated in an Efiimate of the Na- 
TIONAL WEALTH Of GREAT BRITAIN. 
By J. J. GRELLIER, 
(Continued from page 117.) 
T has been fhewn, that, notwithftand- 
ing the expenfive wars in which this 
country has been engaged, which, by 
drawing much money out of the country, 
has greatly diminifhed the profits that 
would otherwife have remained, there has 
been a great accumulation, though, at the 
fame time, the people in general appear to 
live ina much more expenfive manner than 
their anceftors. We have feenthat in the 
year 1664 the whole national ftock did 
not exceed 700,009,000). according to the 
prefent value of money; there has there- 
fore been an average gain fince that time 
of upwards of four millions per annum, a 
very confiderable part of which muft have 
arifen from foreign commerce, for com- 
merce would not be carried on without 
gain, and whatever profits have been faved 
or converted into ftock, muit appear in the 
foregoing account: even the increafed va- 
lue of the land and houfes is ina great 
meafure owing to the affiftance of capitals 
acquired in trade. 
The great increafe of the annual income 
is a further proof that there muft have 
been fuch an accumulating furplus as is 
here ftated. - Sir W. Petty fuppofed the 
income derived from land rc be 3,000,000). 
the profits of perfonal eftate 8,000,000}. 
and the profits of all kind of labour 
26,000,000] making togetherg2,000,0001* 
Mr. G. King eftimated the whole income 
at 43,500,000]. Dr. Davenant, in 1701, 
fays, that according to the produce of the 
land tax, the income derived from land did 
not appear to be above 10,009,000). 
though he certainly thought this below 
the truth; the profits of trade he ftates at 
6,000,000]. and of {ciences, arts, labour, 
induftry, manufactures, retailing foreign 
goods, and buying and felling home com= 
modities, 33,000,000]. making in the 
whole 49,000,000]. “hele accounts are 
excluiive of Scotland; but after making a 
fufficient addition on this account, it will 

* Pol. Arith. p. 123. 
appear 
